Happy New year!! あけましておめでとうございます。
This is the year of the boar! Do you know the reason why the German page about boar on wiki is so rich with star mark?
On New Year eve, I wacthed K-1. But in Japan, Kohaku Utagassen our public channel NHK is the most popular TV show on New Year's Eve night. It had over 70% of viewer rate in the past, people enjoyed hit songs and singers's costume to make the year complete. But the viewing rate of Kohaku goes down year by year. It is simply stuck in a rut, old singers sing their old hit song, actually the show looks like a golden oldie, but that generation supports the viewing rate of the show too and also many popular singers and bands refuse to join the show. Of course key commercial TV stations work hard too to beat up Kohaku, the best practice was combat sports like K-1 or Pride.
This year, Kohaku Utagassen steamed up the news on New Year's Day. DJ Ozma performed with back dancers wearing what looked like naked suit and he also attached something strage (mushroom?) between his legs. (this is youtube , it will be deleted soon). NHK got a lot of protest phone call and the NHK's host apologized later in the show. Well, I don't really care about that.
Hi there
Oh really star mark means excellent article! Thanks, now I got it. I wrote some on Otaku topic before but it was deleted and renewed by someone.
Posted by: Mari | Saturday, January 06, 2007 at 12:24 AM
The German boar page has a star because of its quality. The notation at the bottom of the page states "exzellenter Artikel", which poorly translated probably means that its an excellent article... :) It does have lots of info on boars....
Posted by: Neumann | Thursday, January 04, 2007 at 05:45 AM
Try changing your text encoding settings on your browser. Most Japanese OS browsers default to JIS, EUC, or ISO-2022-JP. Some poorly designed pages fail to include a content-type statement so there's no metadata to tell your browser that this German page uses Unicode/UTF-8. So look for a place to change your browser setting to UTF-8 and it will display correctly.
Posted by: Charles | Wednesday, January 03, 2007 at 06:12 PM
There were no star marks visible on the German wiki "boar" page for me. It could be your browser can't translate one of the German characters and is replacing it with an asterisk. Maybe you need a German font pack.
Posted by: Esther | Wednesday, January 03, 2007 at 06:54 AM
The DJ Ozma video on youtube was too grainy for me to distinguish between a body suit and real nekkidness. :-)
They can always claim a "wardrobe malfunction" like Janet Jackson at the superbowl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardrobe_malfunction
Posted by: Ken | Tuesday, January 02, 2007 at 04:26 PM